Broughton Hall near
Eccleshall
Eccleshall is a town and civil parish in the Stafford district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is located seven miles northwest of Stafford, and six miles west-southwest of Stone. Eccleshall is twinned with Sancerre in France.
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Staffordshire, is a privately owned 16th-century
Elizabethan-style manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...
. It is a
Grade I listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
.
The manor of Broughton was owned by the eponymous
Broughton family from the 13th century. The present house was built in the mid-16th century in the vernacular black and white timbered style of the Elizabethan period. Later the house was stuccoed.
The building was described in 1608 as, "a very fair house, and well seated, being moated about and a park belonging to it with some store of deer in it".
[''HMC 9 Salisbury Hatfield'', vol. 20 (London, 1968), p. 251.]
The estate was sold in 1914 to John Hall, a Midlands industrialist, who extended the property and carried out significant restoration works including the removal of the stucco to reveal the original timbers.
During the 1940s the house served as a school and in 1952 it was donated by the Halls to the nuns of the Franciscan order of St Joseph who cared for the house until it was sold to the present owner
John Caudwell
John David Caudwell (born 7 October 1952) is a British billionaire businessman who founded the now defunct mobile phone retailer Phones 4u. He also invests in fashion, real estate and other industries, and chairs Caudwell Children, a children ...
who continues renovation and restoration work.
See also
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List of Grade I listed buildings in Staffordshire
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Listed buildings in Eccleshall
Eccleshall is a civil parish in the Borough of Stafford, Staffordshire, England. It contains 110 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, three are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three g ...
References
Staffordshire Past Track
Grade I listed buildings in Staffordshire
Country houses in Staffordshire
Eccleshall